
Aria Alden's husband, Evan Eastwood, offered her to Emperor Julian Hawthorne for his career. In the palace, she was tormented, nailed alive in a coffin by a consort, and her unborn child perished. Reborn, she is back before her engagement, determined not to marry Evan. Seeing the emperor's coldness and husband's selfishness, she is filled with hatred and vows never to repeat her past mistakes.